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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
May. 20, 2004
Leon J. Mcnutt, Houston, MN (US);
Thomas E. Nastek, Winona, MN (US);
Leon J. McNutt, Houston, MN (US);
Thomas E. Nastek, Winona, MN (US);
Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An asset management system and method including an asset and a data tag attached to the asset. The data tag includes a data tag memory and a data tag communication interface. The system also includes asset information stored in the data tag memory, wherein the asset information including a characteristic of the asset. Also an asset management method for managing information related to assets. The method includes initializing a data tag with asset information and includes transmitting asset information to the data tag and storing the asset information in a memory of the data tag. The asset information includes service contact information The method also includes retrieving asset information from a data tag.